Hi I set up tomtom 5.21 with my bt gps and everytime i open tomtom i get connection lost after about 5 secs. i look at my bt manager and the gps has disconnected. They are paired even though tomtom tells me they are not?!?!
anyubody have any ideas???
thanks guys
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Hi,
Ive upgraded my blue angel to WM5 (Patch 3) and installed all the other patches.
My bluetooth is version: 1.13 and i am getting weird problem.
When i use TomTom5 via my bluetooth gps everything is fine and no connection problems. As soon as i turn on my bluetooth headset tomtom loses connection to the gps unit. If i then switch off the headset - tomtom starts recieving gps data again.
Does ajnybody know how to get the bluetooth headset icon to display in the today screen as in WM3
Thank You
L 8)
i guess none of you guru's know the answer to this issues
Not a guru, but not experiencing the problem with my BT GPS and Headset running at the same time....
this seems like I/O problem to me. IT seems that your GPS receiver is listening on the same port as your BT headset in which case you need to check and change that. My GPS receiver has inbound port set to com 5 and outbound to com 6 (u can check this in BT settings).
K
I thought I would add my tuppenyworth to the Tomtom problems with the XDA 2i. Bought a wired Tomtom "Official" GPS receiver for it and tried it with TT5 to no avail. It would not recognise the receiver at all no matter how I tried to specify it's com ports etc..
I eventually upgraded to TT5.1 and it worked immediately with no problems at all. Been working fine ever since.
if it matters
hi, i have a xda 2i and use tomtom 5.20, when i use my wired gps i was told to switch off the infra red beam, mine seams to work like that.
port problem?
could anybody help? my xda2i never works with tomtom5...
how to switch the beam off pls??
switch off receiving beam????
under setting > connections > beam
O2 XDAIIi with tomtom 5.21 and BT GPS receiver
but there is still problem with the signals, it can display the right UTC time, and numbers of satellites, such as 29 on the North, but there all gray and said no valid GPS signal!
the com ports couldn't be changed which are com5 inboard, com6 outboard.
does anyone know what the proble is pls??
ps: I installed the BTHTools1100, but no change
see the attachment pic
many thanks
Hi Piers,
i've got exactly the same problem :-(.
With a GlobalStar BT348, the GPS signals are plainly perfect. But when i connect the official Tomtom wired receiver, i only get the grey bars, although, like you, the UTC and spinning wheel are there, indicating the GPS is detected.
I looked at the compatibility list on the Tomtom site, and besides Dell and iPaqs, there seems to be nothing compatible with the wired receiver.
Anybody has other information?
Hi again,
I think I found the solution
1. of course, "receive all incoming beams" has to be off
2. apparently, you can not have a paired BT GPS receiver (even inactive) when you want to use the wired Tomtom receiver... :shock:
I guess it has to do with the way WM2005 deals with GPS... :?:
So, in BT devices, delete the partnership with the BT receiver and everything works fine with the wired one. In TT5, simply declare the receiver as a wired Tomtom
I used it this morning, driving 100km, 90minutes, without a crash or anything
I have a XDA 2s with Tomt Tom 5 on.
I have paired the Bluetooth gps receiver and although the GPS Viewer program picks up the gps signal on the pda via the Bluetooth receiver, for some reason Tom Tom doesn't connect to The Bluetooth Receiver.
It was working and it's suddenly just gone off.
I have tried uninstalling and re-installing Tom Tom but no luck.
Can someone help me please.
Daft question, but have you disabled InfraRed Beam in connections?
No i haven't but i can sure try
and i'll try anything at the moment.
I've disconnected all beams but no luck, i've even tried doing a hard reset but that didn't work either.
I connect my alpine to the gps receiver, but after few minutes, the conenction drops. I have not figured any problems with my bt hansfree.
Can anyone help??
turn off bluetooth
dropped connection
I have a similar problem . Alpine and BN806F , It pairs , wont talk then drops out ? I wonder if there is a time out after no activity ?
As my post says I am having a problem getting tom tom to see my gps reciever , do you have the some problem ? what am I doing wrong ?
Astro1
I downloaded a bt patch but the problem remains. I wonder whether it's a software or hardware problem..
Yes, I can't make my navigation program to see the gps receiver and after a while it gets disconnected...
To the OP - you said you cant get your navigation software 'see' the GPS - this is the root of the problem.
If your BT GPS unit doesnt see any requests to send data to the PDA, it will auto-switch off after a set period of time.
Once you can successfully configure your nav software to receive the GPS data, your bluetooth GPS unit will remain powered on.
You should have a software CD that came with the GPS unit (if not there are a number of freely downloadable GPS utilites for PDAs, some of which can scan for the unit to find it)- there's usually some very low-quality GPS checking utility that displays what satellites the unit can see, signal strength and so on: try using these programs to see if you can connect to your GPS, and if the unit than keeps the BT link open.
Maybe finding out which COM port the GPS unit appears on, will allow you to configure your nav software correctly to see the GPS.
Joe Pinball
I managed to connect it succesfully some times. Usually, it connects via bluetooth but it drops until I load navigator ( my navigation program). When I close the program, the bluetooth is off. I tried to search windows for power save settings but I didn't find something that would help.
GPS problems
Joe
Thanks for your advice I am still haviong big problems .
I have managed to get Tom tom to recognise a wired reciever ( but only once , and then when the cigarete lighter plug moved the unit powered down all was lost.
Do you know of any utilities that will show what is connected to what port as I believe this is the real problem . Aparently tom tom has a bad history of hijacking ports ?
It would be good to see what was actually going on .
Astro1
I've brought this GPS: http://www.techfocus.co.uk/GPS-Rece...TFSN20&tduid=9c2b6aadcc4ca8e0d3f6a72baf759c60
but can't get it to find any satellites on S730 trough Google maps or Route66 (Route66 says no GPS). If anyone has the tool or any tips, please let me know
Edit: Found the GPStool and it finds three satellites and has fairly good reception, but Route66 doesn't find it.. says there is no GPS...
try to move around
hi
set in bluetooth settings for gps receiver com# port and in the route66 (gpstool) set bluetooth GPS receiver on com#.
Drobcek28 said:
hi
set in bluetooth settings for gps receiver com# port and in the route66 set bluetooth GPS receiver on com#.
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Thanks I had done that, but I found my mistake... I don't get to connect to any satellites where I live, so I have to drive some meters before I get any signal...
Thanks everyone
Or try this app